Lahore University of Management Sciences
ENGL 1000 Introduction to Literature in English
Fall Semester (2015-2016)
Instructor
Dr. Saeed Ghazi
Room No.
Room No. 129, Department of English, Academic Block
Office Hours
Friday 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Email
[email protected]
Telephone
8045
Secretary/TA
2115
TA Office
Hours
TBA
Course URL
(if any)
Course Basics
Credit Hours
4
Lecture(s)
Nbr of Lec(s)
Per Week
Nbr of Lec(s)
Per Week
Nbr of Lec(s)
Per Week
Recitation/Lab (per
week)
Tutorial (per week)
2
Duration 1 Hour 50 Minutes
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Duration --
TBA
Duration TBA
Course Distribution
Core
Yes (English major/ English minor)
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Elective
Open for Student
Category
Free Elective
Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors
Close for Student
Category
Seniors
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This four credit introductory course does not assume that students have a prior knowledge of Literature. The
course is designed to ensure that students with no acquaintance with Literature as well as those who have
received some exposure to the discipline in high school feel at home. It seeks to introduce students to the
distinguishing features of the principal genres of poetry, the novel, and drama through a close and sustained
engagement with poems, plays, novels, and short stories drawn from a wide range of historical periods within
the field of English studies. “Non-fictional” genres like biographies, autobiographies, letters, diaries, speeches,
and documents will also receive some attention. This course will also attempt to provide a broad overview of
the discipline of English Studies, including Literary and Historical periods, Literary Movements, and Literary
Theories. We will grapple with questions like the relationship of literary form to content and what, if anything
is particularly and peculiarly ‘literary’ about literary works. Notable among the questions that will come up
for consideration is the tangled issue of canon formation and the politics surrounding canon formations.
COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)
•
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
A)
B)
To equip students with the critical skills and interpretive tools necessary to pursue more advanced
courses in Literature.
To develop in students a heightened sensitivity to and a deeper appreciation of the ‘literariness’
manifest in literary works.
Learning Outcomes
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Students who successfully complete ENGL 1000 should
A)
B)
C)
D)
Manifest a degree of familiarity with the distinctive characteristics of the discipline of literary
studies – the ‘object’; of literary study, the aims and objectives, and the methodology.
Register awareness of and sensitivity to some of the distinctive features and ‘unique’ properties
and uses of literary language.
Exhibit broad familiarity with the characteristics of the paradigmatic genres – the narrative, the
lyric, and the dramatic, as well as sub-genres, dominant literary forms, and significant literary
movements.
Display familiarity with distinctive approaches to Literature – formalist, mimetic, rhetorical, and
biographical, as well as a broad acquaintance with important literary ‘theories’ like New
Criticism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, New Historicism,
and Feminism.
Grading Breakup and Policy
1.
2.
3.
4.
Response Papers/Tests:
Midterm Examination:
Critical Essay:
Final Examination:
15%
30%
25%
30%
Examination Detail
Midterm
Exam
Final
Exam
Yes
Combine Separate: N/A
Duration: 110 Minutes
Preferred Date: First Session of the week (Monday/Tuesday)
Exam Specifications: Closed Book/Closed Notes
Yes
Combine Separate: N/A
Duration: 110 Minutes
Exam Specifications: Closed Book/Closed Notes
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COURSE OVERVIEW
Lecture
Author/ Topic
1.
Introduction to the Course;
Overview of the Discipline;
Literary and Historical Periods
2.
The Literary Canon; Introduction to
Literary Genres: the Narrative, the
Lyric and the Dramatic
I Introduction to Fiction
Reading Fiction
3.
Elements of Fiction
Primary Text /s
Secondary Text /s
M. H. Abrams (B.1916),
“Orientation of Critical
Theories”
Kate Chopin (1851-1904),
“The Story of an Hour”
(1894)
Jonathan Culler, “What is
Literature and Does it
Matter?”
John Updike (1932-2009),
“A&P” (1961)
Harold Bloom (B. 1930),
“Why Read”
Milan Kundera (B. 1929),
from The Art of the Novel
Plot
4.
Types of Plot, Story and Plot,
Fabula and Syuzhet
Style, Tone, and Irony
Point of View
5.
Third Person Narrator, First Person
Narrator
Narrator and Focalizer
Characterization
6.
William Faulkner (18971962), “A Rose for Emily”
(1931)
E.M. Forster (1979-1970),
from Aspects of the Novel
(1927)
Ernest Hemingway (18991961), “Hills Like White
Elephants” (1927)
J. Arthur Honeywell, “Plot
in theModern Novel”
Anton Chekhov (18601904), “The Lady with the
Dog” (1899)
Wayne C. Booth (19212005), “Distance and Point
of View: An Essay in
Classification” (1983)
PunyakanteWijenaike (B.
1933), “Anoma” (1996)
Herman Melville (18191891), “Bartleby the
Scrivener” (1853)
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Saadat Hasan Manto (19121955), “The Dutiful
Daughter”
Daniyal Mueenuddin (B.
1963), “Saleema”
7.
Setting
James Joyce (1882-1941),
“The Dead” (1914)
Theme
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910),
“The Death of Ivan Ilych”
(1886)
Symbolism
Franz Kafka (1883-1924),
“The Metamorphosis”
(1915)
The Novel
F Scott Fitzgerald (18961940), The Great Gatsby
(1925)
8.
9.
10.
Wayne Booth (1921-2005),
from The Rhetoric of
Fiction (1983)
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F Scott Fitzgerald (18961940), The Great Gatsby
(1925)
11.
II Introduction to Poetry
Reading and Responding to Poetry
12.
Tone, Speaker, Situation, and
Setting/Word Choice, and Word
Order
Denotation and Connotation;
Alliteration, Assonance, and
Onomatopoeia
Marianne Moore (18871972),
“Poetry” (1921)
Robert Frost (1874-1963),
“Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening” (1923)
“Acquainted with the
Night” (1928)
“The Road Not Taken”
(1916)
Tropes/Figures of Thought/Figures
of Speech
MonizaAlvi, “How the
World Split in Two”
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963),
“Metaphors” (
13.
John Keats (1795-1821),
“On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer” (1816)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822), “Ozymandias”
Terry Eagleton, from How
to Reada Poem (2007)
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(1818)
John Donne (1572-1631),
“A Valediction Forbidding
Mourning” (1611)
Andrew Marvell (16211678), “To His Coy
Mistress” (1681)
Images and Imagery
Ezra Pound (1885-1972),
“In a Station of the Metro”
(1913)
William Carlos Williams
(1883-1963), “Poem”
(1934)
Matthew Arnold (18221888), “DoverBeach”
(1867)
14.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965),
“Preludes”
John Keats (1795-1821),
“To Autumn”
15.
No Class – Mid Term Exam
Symbol, Allegory, and Irony
16.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869-1935), “Richard
Cory” (1897)
William Butler Yeats (18651939), “The Second
Coming” (1921)
Robert Browning (18121889), “My Last Duchess”
(1842)
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The Sounds of Poetry
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012),
Power (1974)
Robert Browning (18121889), “How they brought
the Good News from Aix to
Ghent” (1838)
Lord Byron (1788-1824),
“The Destruction of
Sennacherib” (1815)
17.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889), “God’s
Grandeur” (1877)
Alexander Pope (16881744), from An Essay on
Criticism (1711)
18.
Patterns of Rhythm; Principles of
Meter
Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic,
Dactylic, Spondee, Blank Verse
Poetic Forms/Open Forms
i)
19.
Sonnet
a) Italian sonnet,
Petrarchan sonnet
b) English or
Shakespearean
sonnet
Octave, sestet, caesura, volta
William Wordsworth (17701850), “London 1802”
William Shakespeare (15641616),
“Shall I Compare thee to a
Summer’s Day” (1609)
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ii)
Ballad
“Sir Patrick Spens”
a) Popular or Traditional Ballad
b) Literary Ballad
iii)
Ode
a)
b)
Pindaric ode
Horatian or
homostrophic ode
Irregular Ode
c)
John Keats (1795-1821),
“Ode to a Nightingale”
(1819)
Poetic Forms (Contd.)
iv)Elegy
v) Villanelle
20.
Seamus Heaney (B. 1939),
“Mid-term Break” (1966)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953),
“Do Not Go Gentle into that
Good Night” (1952)
vi) Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop (19111979), “Sestina” (1965)
vii)Haiku
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694),
“Under Cherry Trees”
viii)Parody
Anthony Hecht (B. 1923)
“The Dover Bitch” (1967)
Writing About Literature
From The Craft of Research
(2003)
21.
The Critical Essay
III Introduction to Drama
22.
23.
Elements of Drama
Introduction to Greek Theater; The
Elizabethan Theatre
John Millington Synge
(1871-1909), Riders to the
Sea (1904)
John Styan, from The
Elements of Drama
Aristotle, from Poetics
Jasper Ridley, from A Brief
History of the Tudor Age
(2002)
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Life in Elizabethan England
24.
Maynard Mack, from
William Shakespeare (1564- Everybody’s Shakespeare,
1616), Hamlet (c.1601)
(1993)
25.
William Shakespeare (15641616), Hamlet (c.1601)
26.
William Shakespeare (1564- Alexander Leggatt, from :
1616), Hamlet (c.1601)
Shakespeare’s Tragedies:
Violation and Identity
(2005)
27.
William Shakespeare (15641616), Hamlet (c.1601)
28.
Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings
William Shakespeare (15641616), Hamlet (c.1601)